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causal-final

causal-final adjective: pertaining to any case that indicates the intention of achieving a specific final result.

Adjective

causal-final (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to any case that indicates the intention of achieving a specific final result.
    • The abstract relationship between locative-temporal and causal-final adverbials is well reflected in their realization in the case system.1982, László Dezső, Typological Studies in Old Serbo-Croatian Syntax, page 210
    • There is, from Early Latin onwards, a causal-final use of the preposition de with adjectives like lassus and sollicitus.1988, Gerd Haverling, Studies on Symmachus' Language and Style, page 201
  2. Goal-oriented; purposeful as opposed to prescribed.
    • Generalising slightly it can thus be said that the organic process has its causal-final explanation and the meaning relationship manifested within the sphere of intentionality has its own structural history.1972, Psychiatria Fennica: Finnish Psychiatry, page 110
    • The second type of sustained agency engages a veto by excluding a certain number of causal-final acts, which would be out of place, from the calibrated acts of ritual performance.1997, J. Peter Burgess, Cultural Politics and Political Culture in Postmodern Europe, →ISBN, page 76

Noun

causal-final (uncountable)

  1. The causal-final case. This case in the Hungarian language combines the causal case and the final case. It can express the cause of emotions (e.g. value someone for something) or the goal of actions (e.g. "kenyérért" for bread).

Examples of causal-final in a sentence

  • The causal-final noun suffix -ért 'for' surfaces in the next sample, in place of an allative -hoz or, alternatively, illative -ba, both 'to'.2007, Gergely Toth, Linguistic Interference and First-language Attrition, →ISBN:
  • The demonstrative pronoun in the causal-final case azért 'for the (following) reason' introduces clauses of purpose.2013, Carol H. Rounds, Hungarian: An Essential Grammar, →ISBN, page 116:

Questions about causal-final

What does causal-final mean?
Causal-final means pertaining to any case that indicates the intention of achieving a specific final result.
How do you use causal-final in a sentence?
The causal-final noun suffix -ért 'for' surfaces in the next sample, in place of an allative -hoz or, alternatively, illative -ba, both 'to'.
What part of speech is causal-final?
Causal-final can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near causal-final in the dictionary

  1. causal ontology
  2. causal set
  3. causal sets
  4. causal verb
  5. causal verbs
  6. causal-final
  7. causalgia
  8. causalgias
  9. causalgic
  10. causalgiform
  11. causalism

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